Minutes for

segment
(should add up
to 12-15)

Segment Description

What will teachers do?

What will students

do?

1-2 min

Introduction.

Introduce concept
by first asking if students
remember how we've been
finding systems to equations
on graphs, and then
explaining that today we will
learn to do that with
equations.

2-4 min

Teaching
students that you can
add two equations to
each other. Showing
them this by first
ignoring the equal sign
and working with only
one side of each
equation. Then
changing to the whole
equation.

Show them how to

focus on just part of the
equation at a time, by
dividing into columns - first
add xs, then ys, etc.

2-4 min

Solving the

equation that's left from

both equations being
added together.

Show students how

the xs have now cancelled
out, leaving an equation with
only one variable.

3-5 min

Using the
newly discovered y
value to solve for the
remaining variable.

Ask students what

they can do now that they
know the value of y.

Substitute
y into the equation.

1-4 min

Checking

answers by substituting
both variables.

Ask students if
they are done with the
problem.
Substitute values
into original equations and
ask students if their answers
are correct.

Recall that
you have to check
answers after you've
solved for variables.
Understan
d how the work they
have just completed
fits into the problem
and works.

Present problem 2
and ask students what to do
first.

1-3 min

Practicing
steps we just took.

6-12 min
depending on
level of
understanding

Go through
the problem solving
steps like we did for the
first problem.

Call out
answers.

Walk
teacher through
steps of solving a
one-variable
equation.

Try to
recall what they just
did and how to
approach the next
problem.

2-3 min

Restating
steps to solving these
types of problems.

End with
homework problems.

Present the slide

that has all steps written
down, inviting students to
copy steps into their math
notebooks.

Copy
steps.